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- Published: 04-01-2014, 08:28 AM
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Revenge #2
Published by: Image Comics
Released on: Mar. 26, 2014
Writer: Jonathan Ross
Artist: Ian Churchill
Cover: Ian Churchill
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Feeling too old to be seen as appealing in the eyes of his Hollywood constituents, Griffin Franks agrees to his the urgings of his porno starlet-wife Candy to get progressive and experimental plastic surgery down in Mexico, only to fall victim to Candy's nasty plan for Revenge. She had his face and fingertips removed, and he's kept alive in some nutrient bath where he's been for two weeks, but unconscious, in unimaginable untreated pain, and hallucinating.
Candy's boy toy Brad also had his face removed, and had Franks' face sewn on, assuming his identity until Candy can get the will signed over. Then she'll kill Franks and get his fortune and her revenge, then run off somewhere with her gorgeous lesbo gal pal. Seems he broke up her parents' marriage when she was little by screwing her mother, and ultimately being the main reason for the death of her mother. She's got someone else to deal with though: Griffin Franks' ex-wife and mother of his son and daughter. She suspects something is up.
Griffin finally comes too, makes an escape, and with some help locates the doctor to get his face back, as he can't survive much longer without his skin. His face is gone, and so is the face of Brad (accident!), and so the German near-Nazi doctor improvises. It's fucked up.
Jonathan Ross' story is just so mean-spirited and vile that it becomes a bit ridiculous, but told so well it instantly becomes addictive. The stuff he puts in here is sure to offend the more sensitive audiences, but to rabid hounds of blood and guts, ultra violence, nudity, and seeing stuff you don't normally see in comics, it's a real treat. Churchill's artwork is as always awesome, and whether he's drawing a dog being killed or an Amazonian porn star fucking a guy up the poop shoot with a gigantic dong, he delivers at a top level and then some. The colors are vital to the effectiveness of his artwork in the book, so kudos to Churchill and Arif Prianto on that too.
The story feels like it was written with screen adaptation in mind, which seems to be a pretty common feeling in a lot of books today, but it's so disgustingly graphic (said with affection) that it seems unlikely that would ever happen. Or at least do the book any justice at all. This book is all kinds of insane, and deserves attention.
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